A century after leaving Norway, Amundsen’s polar exploration vessel ‘Maud’ returns home
Despite never reaching its goal, the ship is considered to be an important element of Norway’s polar history.
Two years after being raised from the shallow waters off Cambridge Bay, in Nunavut, and a century after it set off on the voyage for which it was built, the ship that carried Roald Amundsen on an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole has returned home to Norway.
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